Additional thanks to a dear friend for his special contribution to the meal. Although he won't be dining with us, he'll be there in spirit.

'Frank Underwood' - Kevin Spacey, 'Let Me Be Frank'

(01-21-2019, 01:23 PM)Judas Booth Wrote:

PROTAGONIST VILLAINS

Criteria:Satisfied by:
1. A horror villain 3
2. An animated villain 1
3. A female villain 4,6
4. A male villain 1,2,3,5,7,8,9,10
4. A villain from TV 4,8
6. A villain from the movies 1,2,3,5,6,7,9,10
7. A superhero/comic book villain 1
8. A villain from the classic age of cinema (before 1970s) 3
9. A villain from 1970s to the present 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
10. A villain who you feel doesn't get their due OR someone who "had a point" (be creative!) 1,10

Villains Selected:

1. Thanos

2. Michael Corleone

3. Norman Bates

4. Elisabeth Jennings

5. Alonzo Harris

6. Joan Crawford

7. Tony Montana

8. J.R. Ewing

9. Salieri

10. Graham Marshall

Bonus!

11. Alex DeLarge

12. The Coyote (ineffectual villain for the Roadrunner)

Schwartz:The Villain Double Down

I challenged myself to use my 10 picks to fill each of the 10 categories twice. So everyone gets an understudy for their category, while also acting as back-up to another category:

1. A Horror Villain:

Pennywise The Clown

played by Tim Curry in IT (1990)

Backed Up By: Eli The Vampire

2. An Animated Villain

Syndrome

voiced by Jason Lee in The Incredibles (2004)

Backed Up By: C. Montgomery Burns

3. A Female Villain

Elli The Vampire

played by Lina Leandersson in Let The Right One In (2008)

Backed Up By: Dolores Umbridge

4. A Male Villain

Joffrey Baratheon, First Of His Name, King Of The Andals And The First Men, Lord Of The Seven Kingdoms, And Protector Of The Realm

played by Jack Gleason in Game Of Thrones (2011)

Backed Up By: Gregory Anton

5. A Villain From TV

C. Montgomery Burns

voiced by Harry Shearer in The Simpsons (1989)

Backed Up By: Joffrey Baratheon

6. A Villain From The Movies

Professor Dolores Umbridge

portrayed by Imelda Staunton in Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (2007) and Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, pt. 1 (2010)

Backed Up By: Agent Smith

7. A Superhero/Comic Book Villain

Eric "Magneto" Lensher

portrayed by Ian McKellen in X-Men (2000), X2: X-Men United (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), The Wolverine (2013), X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014), and Michael Fassbender in X-Men: First Class (2010), X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

Backed Up By: Syndrome

8. A Villain From The Classic Age Of Cinema

Gregory Anton

portrayed by Charles Boyer in Gaslight (1944)

Backed Up By: HAL 9000

9. A Villain From The 1970s to the Present

Agent Smith

portrayed by Hugo Weaving in The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

But though it did not garner a single comment, I want to impress on all of you to check out Gaslight. The term has seen an unfortunate rise in visibility the last few years, but the film is a fantastic bit of psychological horror, and dramatizes how horrendously effective and horribly simple the process is very, very well.

Oh, and while There's Something About Mary has not aged nearly as well as Gaslight, Matt Dillon won an Oscar for it in the timeline where the Academy values comedy equally with drama.